<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi - I am new to the use of parallel visualization, and wanted to check it out a bit. I have several questions about using Paraview on an SMP (dual proc or otherwise) machine:<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- When starting paraview in parallel - is the typical usage to start in client-server (so pvclient and pvrenderserver) mode with a multiprocess server or to start in distributed stand-alone mode (paraview)? Are there particular reasons to choose one over the other?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- The older online docs mention that if several processes share a display, the render windows may overlap and the resulting image may be corrupt. what is the typical way around this?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- In goofing around, I tried adding the --use-offscreen-rendering flag to pvrenderserver, but still render windows appeared for the processes. Is this a sign that I don't have mesa installed or set up properly?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- In order to take advantage of the parallel rendering - would I need to feed decomposed data files into the program, or does it handle this internally? Also - Other than checking speedup in rendering, how can one check that the rendering is actually being done in parallel vs. duplicated on each process?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks in advance,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Dave</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">David E. Farrell</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Graduate Student</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Mechanical Engineering</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Northwestern University</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">email: <A href="mailto:d-farrell2@northwestern.edu">d-farrell2@northwestern.edu</A></SPAN></FONT></P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>